Tehran, YJC. In a locally unprecedented move, an Iranian court has sentenced an Afghan man out of the Iran and 3 years of imprisonment for bird abuse.

Fars province’s Environment Organization said that an Afghan
man was sentenced by the court of Oqlid County to 2 million tomans (around
$600), 3 years in prison, and finally leaving the soil of Iran for treating a
bird in inhuman ways.

The 43-year-old Afghan national had caught a kestrel and
then sewn its wings and eyelids with the intent to tame it.

The sentence issued for the man is unprecedented in the judicial
history of Iran.

He was arrested by environment protection officers and
handed over to the police.

The bird which according to Oqlid’s environment protection
officials was badly injured and ill was treated by veterinarians and after one
week of rehabilitation, it was freed into nature in the Basiran area around Oqlid.

Kestrel is the name given to several members of the falcon
genus, Falco. Kestrels are distinguished by their typical hunting behavior
which is to hover at a height of around 10–20 meters over open country and
swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects.